According to the article “Texas Health Insurance Plans Help Residents of the Lone Star State During Natural Disasters” by Ronnie Hamilton on bestsyndication.com, when Hurricane Ike hit Texas last year everyone with injuries, even minor, were sent to the hospital for a mandatory check up. Residents were strongly encouraged to seek medical attention as soon [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Chicago Fighting for the Olympics
President Obama will put his Chicago health insurance and health care reform fight to rest for a short moment while he goes to Copenhagen, Denmark later this week to push Chicago, IL as the location for the 2016 summer Olympics according to the article “Obama to Make Olympic Pitch” by Steve Chaggaris on cbsnews.com. President [...]
FamilyBlue – BCBSFL Discount Card
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSFL) offers a Medical Discount Card called FamilyBlue that provides discounts on health care. FamilyBlue is not health insurance, but it does provide discounts on heath care services which is negotiated with providers. As mentioned above, FamilyBlue is not health insurance, and should be viewed as a last resort [...]
Individual Health Insurance Up for Debate
Beth Fouhy from the Associated Press wrote a very interesting article entitled “People playing the odds on health care over costs” found on google.com. The article discusses a group of people unsupportive of President Obama’s ideal that everyone should be required to have individual health insurance coverage. It’s not known exactly how many of the [...]
Assurant Health Insurance Has New Leadership
Assurant Health Insurance, a leader in individual medical, small group, and specialty health insurance products, announced earlier this month about two changes to their leadership team. This is according to their Newsroom article “Assurant Health Announces Executive Promotions”. Steve Cain has been promoted to senior vice president-chief administrative and risk officer. Jack Rogers has been [...]
PPO Health Insurance Compared To HMO
Many people are confused by the difference between PPO health insurance and HMO health insurance. A helpful article on insurance.com entitled “HMO vs PPO” in their FAQ section does a great job of explaining the differences. With an HMO, which stands for health maintenance organization, members must choose a primary care doctor from a list [...]
Individual Blue – BCBSAL
There has been much much media coverage over the past year regarding rapidly increasing health insurance rates. Rates have increased significantly this decade for sure, however there are still affordable health insurance plans that can be found. Individual Blue is a low cost health insurance plan for Alabama residents offered by Blue Cross and Blue [...]
Humana Health Insurance Provides Pedometers
During Nationwide Tour’s Utah Championship September 11-13, Humana Health Insurance, the official health benefits company of the PGA Tour, provided pedometers to all spectators to encourage healthy exercise. This is according to an article on Humana’s website in their Newsroom. The promotion, called Walk it Tee to Green, advised spectators to chart how many steps [...]
Cleveland Health Insurance
The US Census Bureau recently released a report that said the Cleveland area has a very high percentage of residents without health insurance coverage. The report which was released Monday, Sept. 21, found that 22% of Cleveland residents under age 65 are uninsured. Nationally 17% of the adult population go uninsured and in Ohio as [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield on Reform
On Blue Cross Blue Shield’s website there is a news article entitled “New Census Report Underscores Need for Health Care Reform”. It has a statement from President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield Scott P. Serota. The statement follows after the release of the report from the US Census Bureau that shows [...]
